Taking a moment to scan the search engines for school bus-related articles brought some interesting news from not only the U.S., but from around the world as well.
The Gaza Strip, an area that has seen far too much violence, became the sight of another unintentional bombing. This time a school bus was struck by “an anti-tank missile fired from the Gaza Strip near the border between southern Israel and Gaza,” according to a report from Time magazine. The sole child on board, a 16-year-old boy, was left with a critical head wound.
In a time when technology is expanding by the minute, one school district is taking the opportunity to educate their students on the ride to school. Some students from Comal Independent School District in southern Texas will be benefiting from the donation of two Bus-Ed-Safe-TV (BEST) monitors — 26-inch LCD televisions at the front of the bus that will play educational material such as Discovery Channel programs.
In Florida, one district has decided to increase the limitations on the restraints that can be used on special-needs students after a report from the Palm Beach Post "documented hundreds of instances where school employees held a special needs child in a face-down hold, called prone restraint.”